Modified partition functions, consistent anomalies and consistent Schwinger terms

DOI10.1142/S0219887811005907MaRDI QIDQ2891194zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Amir Abbass Varshovi

Publication date 13 June 2012

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2857

zbMATH Keywords

consistent anomaliesgauge invariancepartition function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: A gauge invariant partition function is defined for gauge theories which leads to the standard quantization. It is shown that the descent equations and consequently the consistent anomalies and Schwinger terms can be extracted from this modified partition function naturally.

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